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25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
An excerpt from my script review for Is This Thing On? which will be available 12/22/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
I forget exactly where I read it, but this is loosely based on...
An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
We break scripts down the Monday after its opening weekend. Read detailed reviews and see what current writers selling scripts are doing right, and sometimes wrong.
The Horror Month fun continues! This week, The Captain watches, maybe so we don't have to, The Greasy Strangler!!!
The Greasy Strangler isn’t a movie, but an experience.
Bullshit! I call bullshit...
Amateur Script: b>Vampire Prison by Peggy
Logline: In a soon to be closed decrepit, island prison off the coast of Seattle an ancient vampire buried for a hundred years is awakened. Can a...
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Wow, is this late. My apologies.
Woke up late and then the wife and I go to yoga every Wednesday. We actually have this lady teacher that reminds me of...
An excerpt from my script review for Searching (2018) which will be available 06/03/19:
2.) Plot Stability
From the get go we’re thrown into the “computer style” that plays out like an early 90s...
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First off, to our new friends visiting us from Reddit.com, thanks for coming over, and know you can READ the scripts we pick on our Read Page or for a particular...
Script: V for Vendetta by Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
Logline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from...
https://youtu.be/w3ugHP-yZXw
I want to get this out of the way now. I thought this film was terrible. You won’t have to read through page after page of my ranting and raving just to...
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Back at it for the start of another week.
Just a quick housekeeping note. Roy mentioned in the script links, but we'll both be defined by days now. We were...
